Improvement in fishing-line sinkers



UNITED 'STATES PATENT Oratorig LEONARD A. BURN HAM, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FISHING-LINE SINKERS.'

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,21 l. dated September 25, 1866.

,To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, LEONARD A. BURNHAM, of Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Fishing-Line Hawse and Swivel; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a perspective view of it as applied to a sinker. Fig. 2 is a section of it as taken through the hawse and its hook-line supporting rod. Fig. 3 is a top view of the hawse and its connection -rod, which goes through the sinker rin manner as shown in Fig. 4, which is a vertical section of the sinker and 'hawse In the drawings, A represents the hook-line supporter, which is provided with eyes a a at its extremities for the attachment of the lines of the hooks to it.

The said supporter extends in opposite directions and at or about right angles to a spindle, B, of the haws'e, such spindle being usually made of metal or rawhide and leather.

This spindle is inserted and fixed in-a cylindrical tube, C, formed with a cylindrical pro jection, c, extending from a shoulder, b,- as represented. This tube C may have a tapering bore toreceive the spindle of the hawse when such spindle is made of exile materials, such as rawhide and leather, such bore being larger in diameter at its rear end. The said tube C extends into another tube or socket-piece, D,

which has a male screw, c, formed 011 it at 4its front end. The socket-tube is closed at its rear end and is hinged or jointed to the connection-rod E, which goes up through the sinker S, and may be provided with a swivel,

F, arranged at its upper end. The fishing-line is to be attached to the eye of the swivel.

The sinker is to be cast on both the connection-rod and the socket-tube 1).

A cylindrical cap, G, to fitto the projection C and against its shoulder b is to be screwed 011 the screw e. It serves to keep the swivel tube in place in its socket'tube, in which it can frecl y revolve.

The socket-tube applied to the sinker, anda the swivel-tube applied to the spindle, is a great improvement over the common niodes of making a hawse and connecting it. to the hooksupporter and the sinker, as it allows the hooksupporter to revolve only in one plane, and

therefore prevents fouling of the hooks or their lines, and other difficulties incident to the ordinary modes of applying the hook-sup-l porter to the hawse.

I claim- The improved swivel-hawse made of the parts G D G, constructed, arranged, and combined with the spindle B andthe sinker' S, substantially as above set forth.

t LEONARD A. BURNHAM.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. CURTIS. 

